[Paraphrasing] Residents of Tularosa want President Obama to visit them after visiting Hiroshima because they claim that "generations of villagers have suffered from cancers and other health problems resulting from the Trinity Test, but the federal government has yet to fully acknowledge those effects."

The Trinity bomb was deployed in the desert near towns populated with Hispanic and Native American populations. These citizens have been excluded from the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which provides a (measly) $50,000 payout as compensation for health problems.

Downwinder settlements have only been achieved for residents in areas of Nevada, Arizona and Utah who were impacted by atmospheric testing in Nevada.

Is this racism? I would say it certainly appears to be, although one can see from the policy of atmospheric testing that the federal government's nuclear apparatuses had little regard for the health and welfare of any national population.

About Me

I am a Professor at a large public university. I study political economy and biopolitics (the politics of life). My interests are diverse but are broadly concerned with economic, social and environmental justice. I have published 5 books: Crisis Communication, Liberal Democracy and Ecological Sustainability: The Threat of Financial and Energy Complexes in the Twenty-First Century (2016); Fukusima and the Privatization of Risk (2013); Constructing Autism (2005); Governmentality, Biopower and Everyday Life (2008/2011); Governing Childhood (2010).
I also participated in an edited collection on Fukushima: Fukushima: Dispossession or Denuclearization (2014).